ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on assessment task design and implementation in the subject of History. Making History is a first-year foundation course taken by around 110 students from a variety of disciplines, including arts, business, education, law and others. The module focuses on the varied ways in which the past is present in contemporary lives, critical engagement with representations of the past, and the importance of thinking historically. The chapter describes and analyses the three assessment elements of the course: fieldwork report, assessed participation and project. The fieldwork report is worth 30 per cent of the final grade for the module. There are two major means of encouraging and assessing student participation: weekly one-sentence response (OSR) tasks and the assessment of tutorial participation. In relation to the project, tutorials further the discussion of what the students are going to produce for their final project and they practise the skills which they need to carry out the project.
